Conflict Journalism

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced strong condemnation of a 19 July 2006 Israeli army attack on Al-Jazeera TV reporter Jevara Al-Budeiri and her crew in the West Bank town of Nablus, in which one of the crew's technicians, Wael Tantous, was hit in the foot by rubber bullets. The crew was broadcasting live at the time. "We are very concerned about repeated, deliberate acts of...

JERUSALEM: Here's some news you may never hear about Israel's war against Hezbollah: a missile falls into the sea, a strategic military installation is hit, a Cabinet minister plans to visit the front lines. All these topics are subject to review by Israel's chief military censor, who has -- in her own words -- "extraordinary power." She can silence a broadcaster, block information and put...

NEW YORK: With many newspapers already limited in their foreign coverage by the ongoing Iraq War, and some budget cutbacks, the current MIddle East conflict -- which escalated over the weekend with new attacks on both sides and numerous civilian casualties -- has thrown a new wrench of staffing and news space demands. Although most foreign editors say they have been able to keep their Iraq...

Israel is fast catching up with its adversaries in its attacks on the press. Seven journalists and media workers were injured in a space of two days during attacks carried out by Israeli forces in Lebanon earlier this week. Two Palestinian photographers were shot at last week in the Gaza area. BOMBED OUT: The compound of buildings housing the television station of the Lebanese Shiite militant...

New York, July 17, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the detention of Al-Jazeera television crews covering Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel amid allegations that they were “assisting the enemy.” Walid al-Omary, Jerusalem-based bureau chief for the Arab satellite TV station, told CPJ that he had been detained by Israeli police three times in two days for his...

In Colombia reports of attacks on the press do no buck the trend. The pattern this year has been one of issuing threats and making a journalist flee his/her city of work. Six journalists have had to flee this year, a seventh was kidnapped, and another murdered. UNARMED AND DANGEROUS: Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) after surrendering their weapons in Alvarado, Colombia...

(CNSNews.com) - Media rights campaigners have criticized Israel for firing missiles at a Beirut-based television station, but Israel and other critics say the broadcaster serves a function far more dangerous than disseminating news. Israeli missiles on Thursday targeted a transmission antenna of the al-Manar television network in the Lebanese capital. The station, which is run by the Shi'ite...

CHICAGO For nearly a decade, the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP for its initials in Spanish) has been an internationally respected non-government organization (NGO) reporting to the world from Bogota about the death threats, kidnappings, assassinations and other dangers faced by Colombian journalists. Now FLIP says that it has been declared a "military target" by an apparent right-wing death...

When the young British journalist talks of operating in a "good patch", they often mean their area has enough crime problems to keep the local courts busy and themselves in bylines. Well, try this one for size: Grozny, Chechnya. Home to a conflict that over the past seven years has seen near civil war and the emergence of brutal militias, thousands of people killed and countless others...

Tampa radio personality Tedd Webb has one thing to offer reporters - or anyone else - who reveals details of any secret government program aimed at fighting terrorism during the current war. A bullet. Sparked by several newspapers' publication of stories on the Treasury Department's monitoring of terrorist suspects' money transfers worldwide, Webb told listeners to his radio show on WFLA-AM 970...